CURRICULUM VITAE

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Family name: ADAM KHADAM

First name: MOHAMED AHMED
Date of birth: 1947
Nationality: Sudanese
Civil Status:
married
Education (most recent first):
Institution (date from - to)
Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:
Faculty of Civil Engineering,
Associate Professor
University of Khartoum
1992 to date
University of Khartoum 1986
Ph.D. Civil Engineering
International Courses, Delft,
Diploma of Sanitary Engineering (Equivalent to M.Sc.)
Netherlands 1975
University of Khartoum 1971
B.Sc. Civil Engineering with honors

7. Language Skills: Indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 excellent - 5 basic)

Language
Reading
Speaking
Arabic
1
1
Englisch
1
1

Writing
1
1

8. Membership of professional bodies: Member of International Water Resources Association, U.S.A.,

Member of the Sudanese Engineering Society
9. Other skills: computer literacy (MS word, exel)
10. Present position: Associate Professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Khartoum
11. Years within the firm: 20 years
12. Key qualifications/skills: Over 25 years experience in public health and water engineering.
Experienced in organising and managing major projects in study, design and implementation stages.
Three years experience as an expert and task leader for the team responsible to assess the municipal
infrastructures as far as wet utilities were concerned for the City of Riyadh capital of Saudi Arabia.
Two years experience as an expert of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)
working for Waste Water Authority of the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources in Mauritius.
More than ten years in academic career as a Lecturer and Associate Professor of environmental
engineering for Civil Engineering Department of University of Khartoum.
Head of Civil Engineering Department of University of Khartoum (1997-2003).
Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (U of K) for academic affairs (2004 to 2009).
13. Specific experience in the region (most recent first)
Country
Sudan
Ethiopia
Mauritius
Saudi Arabia
Kampala, Uganda

Date from - Date to

1971-2012
2006-2007
1994 1996
1988 1991
1979 - 1980

14. Professional experience record (most recent experience)

Date from Date to
2009 to date

2009 to date

Location
Khartoum,
Sudan
Khartoum,
Sudan

2010-2011

Northern
Kordofan state,
Sudan

2006-2007

Khartoum,
Sudan
El Obeid, Sudan
Kibre Mengist,
Ethiopia

2006-2007
2006-2007
2006-2007
2006-2007
2002-2006
2002-2006
2002-2006
2002-2006
19962002

Sudan
Sudan
Sudan
Sudan

Company and
contact
Khartoum
State waste
water
Corporation
Khartoum
State waste
water
Corporation
financed by
Dam
Implementatio
n Unit

Position

Description

Project
Manager

Responsible for rehabilitation of sewage treatment plant (SBR system) of capacity 17000 cum/d
(Mena water U A E main Contractor)

Project
Manager

Responsible for rehabilitation of water treatment plant for Khartoum State water Corporation of
capacity 300000 cum/d ( Mena-water U A E main Contractor )

Engineer

Design of water treatment facilities for rural and nomad communities in Northern Kordofan state
in the Water Harvesting Projects (water impounding reservoirs ( Haffirs)

Engineer

Design of Geili waste water Treatment plant.

Engineer
Engineer

Design of El Obeid water treatment plant from White Nile

Design of water Supply Project for Ethiopia Town, Kibre Mengist

Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Engineer
Senior
Consultant

Design of water supply and Sanitation System for Marawai Dam project
Water Supply & Wastewater system for Heart Hospital at Wad Medani
Water Supply & waste water project for Thar Jath hospital
Design and Supervision of Kenana Township and Factory Sewerage System (60,000m3/d).
Design of sewerage project for Khartoum Refinery Company at El Geili (18003/d)
Water Supply and Sanitation System for the Master plan of White Nile Sugar Project.
Responsible for design and construction supervision of water distribution and sanitation for various
industrial and building projects such as:

Arab Sudanese Vegetable Oil & Soap Project.

Sudanese Korean Vocational Training Centre.

White Nile River Front Development Project.

Kenana Factory and Township Development Plan Project.
El Roubi Agricultural Production Township and Factory.
Master Plan for Towns of Southern Kordofan State.
GNPOC projects at Heglig , Geili and Headquarter.
PortSudan. El Obeid, El Fasher ,Omdurman water supply Projects.

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1994 1996

Location
Mauritius

Company and
contact
Arab Bank for
Economic
Development
in (BADEA),
Waste Water
Authority,
Mauritius

Position
Expert

Description
Responsible for:
Managing and organising the following major sewerage projects in study, design, tender documents
and implementation stages:

Urgent Improvement Works for existing sewerage facilities in urban areas of Mauritius
(Project value US$ 12 M).

New sewerage facilities for tourist resort at Grand Baie (PV = US$ 20M).

Sewerage facilities at Baie du Tombeau area comprising pumping stations, sewer

networks, Treatment Plant and marine outfall (PV = US$ 10 M).

Extension of Treatment Plant at St. Maartin to Tertiary level including irrigation systems (PV
= US$ 27 M).
Supervising the Pollution Control Unit where effective monitoring is required to control the
discharge of waste water to sewers, rivers and water courses in order to secure compliance with
required effluent standards.

1991 1994

1988 1991

Sudan

Saudi Arabia

Civil
Engineering
Department,
University of
Khartoum

Associate
Professor /
consultant

High
Commission
for
Development
of City of
Riyadh-Saudi
Arabia.

Team leader /
coordinator

Reviewing Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) reports for different undertakings in the country.
Associate Professor for environmental engineering in the Civil Engineering Departments for both
undergraduate and graduate courses.
(Consultant for the wet utilities of the University of Khartoum and other new Universities
compounds.
Being associated with private firms for some major projects such as:
Community water supply and sanitation project for rural areas of Khartoum sponsored by
World Health Organisation.
Design and supervision of water and drainage systems for multi-storey buildings in
Khartoum including hospitals, banks and other commercial complex.
Consultant of wet utilities for Arab Organisation for Agricultural Development building.
Consultant with Kuljian from U.S.A. for the study of Desalination plant for Port Sudan.
Responsible to assess the municipal infrastructures as far s the wet utilities were concerned and the
current water use practices for the City of Riyadh. The work covered the following aspects:

Leakage tests and assessment form drinking water networks.

Infiltration from foul water sewers and storm water sewers into sub-soil strata.

Aspects of domestic water conservation and preventive programmes for solving the rising
groundwater in the city.
Task Leader for water quality programme and co-ordinator for water resources management for
Wadi-Hanifah catchment area.
- Reviewer (to date) for the research study projects of wet utilities in Saudi Arabia sponsored by
King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology in Riyadh.

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1980 - 1988

Location
Sudan

1979 - 1980

Kampala,
Uganda

1975 1979

Sudan

1971 - 1975

Sudan

Company and
contact
Civil
Engineering
Department,
University of
Khartoum and
associated with
Local
Engineering
firms.
Concorp,
International
Kampala,
Uganda
National Urban
Water
Corporation,
Khartoum
National Urban
Water
Corporation,
Khartoum.

Position

Description

Lecturer and
Consultant

Project
Manager
Senior Engineer

Assistant
Engineer

15. Other relevant information:

Publications
Water Losses from Municipal Utilities and their Impacts Water International 16 (1991) 254 - 261 IWRA, U.S.A.
Modelling drained solids matter and salt transport through deep aquifers proceedings of international workshop on the application of mathematical models for the
assessment of changes in water quality, Tunis May 1990.
Factors influencing per capital water consumption in urban areas of developing countries Journal of International Water Resources Association (IWRA), 1988.
Management of urban water supply demand in arid developing countries proceedings of the International Conference on Water for the future, Italy 1987.
Assessment of water resources systems for semi-arid Savannah urban region Proceedings of International Conference on water resources needs in drought prone
areas, Khartoum 1986.
Water Resources in Sudan A book published by National Council of Research, Khartoum, Sudan 1982.
The Man-Made Environment Technical report for the rising ground water management study for City of Riyadh, 1990.

The Public Health Aspects of the rising ground water Riyadh, 1990.
Domestic Water Conservation issued jointly with Water Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Loughborough, United Kingdom, 1990 Riyadh.
2008 .
2008 " " .
(2010 2000)
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Biological Method for Treatment of Petroleum Produced Water in Sudan (Heglig Oil field), Published in Sudan Engineering Society Journal (2009)
Sanitation Systems and their Environmental Effects on Urban and Rural Communities in Khartoum State
Accepted for Publication in Sudan Engineering Society Journal.
Patents
Other education
Seminars, lectures attended
Scholarships received